Many Eyes? July 19, 2007 7:32 AM Subscribe
What on earth is this?
Someone was doing some contact-mapping a while back—there was a post in Metatalk, I'll see if I can track it down unless someone beats me to it—and that looks like the raw data.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:37 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:37 AM on July 19, 2007
User contacts, I would imagine. Why, I have no idea.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:37 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:37 AM on July 19, 2007
Whoops.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:37 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:37 AM on July 19, 2007
It's a data set for this, a visualisation of Metafilter users and the links between them. You can click the blue Visualise button and see various different views of the data, like network diagrams.
posted by Aloysius Bear at 7:38 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by Aloysius Bear at 7:38 AM on July 19, 2007
I got the contacts part. The fact that it's on an IBM site within a subdirectory called "manyeyes" struck me as odd.
posted by Optamystic at 7:39 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by Optamystic at 7:39 AM on July 19, 2007
It has me connected to Eideteker TWICE. Once is enough, believe me.
posted by hermitosis at 7:40 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by hermitosis at 7:40 AM on July 19, 2007
IBM IS WATCHING US
posted by brain_drain at 7:41 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by brain_drain at 7:41 AM on July 19, 2007
It has me connected to Eideteker TWICE. Once is enough, believe me.
That comment is useless without pics.
posted by maudlin at 7:42 AM on July 19, 2007 [2 favorites]
That comment is useless without pics.
posted by maudlin at 7:42 AM on July 19, 2007 [2 favorites]
That's the final canonical list of everyone who dies in the last Harry Potter, whoop it up folks, we have 'till tomorrow midnight and then we're all gonna see the big wizard in the sky.
posted by Divine_Wino at 7:45 AM on July 19, 2007 [2 favorites]
posted by Divine_Wino at 7:45 AM on July 19, 2007 [2 favorites]
My name appears four times on it. Hooray, I officially matter now!
posted by Ryvar at 7:48 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by Ryvar at 7:48 AM on July 19, 2007
IT'S NOT FAIR I WANT TO BE ON THE SCARY INTERNET ROBOT WATCHLIST
posted by flashboy at 7:49 AM on July 19, 2007 [10 favorites]
posted by flashboy at 7:49 AM on July 19, 2007 [10 favorites]
The fact that it's on an IBM site within a subdirectory called "manyeyes" struck me as odd.
Many Eyes is the name of IBM's infovis project.
posted by clavicle at 7:59 AM on July 19, 2007
Many Eyes is the name of IBM's infovis project.
posted by clavicle at 7:59 AM on July 19, 2007
AWESOEM!!!11 Yet another tool to show how unpopular I am! Ok, I get it. Please make the voices stop! I need a cookie.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 8:03 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 8:03 AM on July 19, 2007
Why am I not on this list?!
posted by parmanparman at 8:06 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by parmanparman at 8:06 AM on July 19, 2007
Funny, I found the same list yesterday while searching for a thread through Google, just before the weird question scraping site was discovered.
posted by OmieWise at 8:16 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by OmieWise at 8:16 AM on July 19, 2007
thank the lord I'm not on this else I'd be even more paranoid, hypervigilant and insomniac than I already am *snarks at self*
but seriously... i've seen many times text files show up on google with just lists of names on it. real names not handles. what are they? if you want to find them just google two full names together and you're bound to come up wiht a few of these - er I've done that to find coauthored articles and stuff
oops *goes off to find tinfoil hat*
posted by infini at 8:16 AM on July 19, 2007
but seriously... i've seen many times text files show up on google with just lists of names on it. real names not handles. what are they? if you want to find them just google two full names together and you're bound to come up wiht a few of these - er I've done that to find coauthored articles and stuff
oops *goes off to find tinfoil hat*
posted by infini at 8:16 AM on July 19, 2007
I didn't see the previous thread in time, but please permaban reklaw.
posted by Kwine at 8:21 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by Kwine at 8:21 AM on July 19, 2007
No cabal, my ass!
posted by horsewithnoname at 8:23 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by horsewithnoname at 8:23 AM on July 19, 2007
Hey, cool. Using the nifty little java visualization tool I was able to spot at least one user I really needed to link to.
Jesus Q. Shatner-Christ, iconomy! You have a lot of contacts!
posted by loquacious at 8:33 AM on July 19, 2007
Jesus Q. Shatner-Christ, iconomy! You have a lot of contacts!
posted by loquacious at 8:33 AM on July 19, 2007
Wha? No I don't, ya silly. You have more than I do. Scroll down that thing and check out jessamyn's or languagehat's if you think I have a lot.
posted by iconomy at 8:49 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by iconomy at 8:49 AM on July 19, 2007
Err, nevermind. The visualizer had you all lit up like a pinball machine.
If you pan up you can see mathowie's contacts. Of which there are indeed many.
posted by loquacious at 8:56 AM on July 19, 2007
If you pan up you can see mathowie's contacts. Of which there are indeed many.
posted by loquacious at 8:56 AM on July 19, 2007
Whatever it is, it's put me up near the top, and that's got to mean it is good and right.
posted by Astro Zombie at 9:03 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by Astro Zombie at 9:03 AM on July 19, 2007
Ack. My laptop cannot handle that visualization. I was hopping around trying to find where I was (nestled away in a lower quadrant turns out, nice and cosy) when I accidentally got sucked into some kind of unending zoom function, zeroed in on Jessamyn looking like a miniature sun in that network connection mode, all Spock-for-Alia like. I had to X out of there. Like a bad trip without the drugs.
posted by dreamsign at 9:05 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by dreamsign at 9:05 AM on July 19, 2007
Whew, glad I'm not on there.
Because I'm not a communiss'.
posted by CRM114 at 9:28 AM on July 19, 2007
Because I'm not a communiss'.
posted by CRM114 at 9:28 AM on July 19, 2007
There's a ton interesting visualizations on there.
Browse them all.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 9:34 AM on July 19, 2007
Browse them all.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 9:34 AM on July 19, 2007
It has me connected to Eideteker TWICE. Once is enough, believe me.
It has Eidetaker connected to me twice as well, which is just right. We're, like, connected, me and my old buddy Eidetaker, if you know what I mean.
posted by Meatbomb at 9:49 AM on July 19, 2007
It has Eidetaker connected to me twice as well, which is just right. We're, like, connected, me and my old buddy Eidetaker, if you know what I mean.
posted by Meatbomb at 9:49 AM on July 19, 2007
Are you trying to make me jealous?
posted by hermitosis at 10:59 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by hermitosis at 10:59 AM on July 19, 2007
Well, this has certainly taken a decidedly homoerotic turn. Cocks!
posted by loquacious at 11:23 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by loquacious at 11:23 AM on July 19, 2007
I'm connected to Astro Zombie twice. Not once to Astro Zombie and once to Astro Zombie 2 or 3.
posted by brundlefly at 11:34 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by brundlefly at 11:34 AM on July 19, 2007
I'm connected to rodii twice - once for each i. Is that where the name Many Eyes came from?
posted by iconomy at 12:04 PM on July 19, 2007
posted by iconomy at 12:04 PM on July 19, 2007
I'm starting to get the feeling that I am inadvertently at the center of a much more sophisticated version of that Javascript zombie attack simulation that was making the rounds a while back.
posted by Astro Zombie at 12:21 PM on July 19, 2007
posted by Astro Zombie at 12:21 PM on July 19, 2007
They left my name off the list just to give me a false sense of security. I know they're watching me. YOU BASTARDS.
posted by IronLizard at 12:36 PM on July 19, 2007
posted by IronLizard at 12:36 PM on July 19, 2007
It's an invitation list to the best party all year... and I'M NOT INVITED!!! ::bawls:: I DID MY BEST!!! ::bawls:: I did.. my best... ::sniff::
posted by LordSludge at 1:12 PM on July 19, 2007
posted by LordSludge at 1:12 PM on July 19, 2007
New House Unamerican Activities Committee list? See you famous people at the hearings.
posted by Cranberry at 1:54 PM on July 19, 2007
posted by Cranberry at 1:54 PM on July 19, 2007
I'm on the list exactly once, so therefore I am infinitely superior to you multiple-times people.
posted by Kickstart70 at 8:20 PM on July 19, 2007
posted by Kickstart70 at 8:20 PM on July 19, 2007
Proof that jessamyn is center of the universe.
posted by philomathoholic at 10:26 PM on July 19, 2007
posted by philomathoholic at 10:26 PM on July 19, 2007
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posted by Blazecock Pileon at 7:36 AM on July 19, 2007 [3 favorites]